Inspirational and Insightful Quotations #36 --- Prejudice

Quotations on Prejudice (Set No. 2)

Prejudice, like the common cold, clogs your ears, makes it hard to open your eyes, stuffs up your head–and spreads rapidly on exposure.

—John Mooney, Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 4, 1959.

Prejudice is the greatest and most powerful tornado that ever swept the earth. It has been the cause of the greatest injustice to humankind, and has brought about more sorrow and trouble, perhaps, than any other one thing.

People sometimes talk vehemently about being guided by conscience in certain things, when in truth they are guided by blind, unreasoning prejudice. There is a difference.

—J.B. Cranfill, Baptist Standard, Dallas, Texas, Sept. 11, 1902.

There are at least two main reasons for religious prejudice and hatred. The principal one is ignorance. Religious prejudice, as I see it, is dislike and hatred for another man's religion–and that dislike and hatred is there because the one who has it just does not know the facts in the case. Certainly each man is entitled to believe as he wishes, but he should be willing to allow the other fellow the same privilege.

When a good man's name is defamed, if he defends himself, the base slanderers say he is a braggart, talking too much of himself. If he does not defend himself, they say that his silence is a confession of his guilt. And...